The Guardian- Donald Trump will try to roll back Iran’s expanding influence in the Middle East

The imposition of new US sanctions on Iran, only two weeks after the Obama administration left office, has raised fears that Donald Trump is gearing up for a new confrontation by branding Tehran the “champion” of global terror.

Iran has angrily dismissed Trump as inexperienced and dangerous. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said military units would conduct missile exercises on Saturday to demonstrate their “complete preparedness to deal with threats [and] humiliating sanctions”.

But suggestions that Trump is planning unilateral action to scrap or bypass the landmark nuclear deal with Iran, agreed in 2015 by the US, the four other permanent members of the UN security council and the EU, may prove wide of the mark.

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